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A Life with Words
Richard B. Wright
其他書名
A Writer's Memoir
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2015-09-15
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
ISBN
1476785368
9781476785363
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=unTWBQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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From the acclaimed writer of the beloved
Clara Callan
comes a beautifully crafted, charming portrait of the writing life. Combining his characteristic wit and self-deprecation with his extraordinary imagination and insight, Richard B. Wright has created a deeply affecting memoir that reads like a novel.
As a small, watchful boy growing up in a working class family in Midland, Ontario, during the Second World War, Wright gradually discovered that he saw the world through different eyes. His intellectual and sexual awakenings, his exploits as a young salesman in Canadian publishing, his painful struggles to become a writer—all of this is balanced against the extraordinary reception that in the 1970s greeted his first novel,
The Weekend Man
, which was published around the world to great acclaim. In spite of the sometimes crippling depression that haunted him and the ups and downs of the mid-life writer, he would finally achieve overwhelming success with
Clara Callan
, the Giller-winning work that swept every award in Canada and revitalized his career.
Lovers of Wright’s work will appreciate behind-the-scenes glimpses of his craft in individual novels and his exploration of how a writer transmutes experience into art. And readers will enjoy his thoughtful exploration of the essential role of storytelling in our lives.
A Life with Words
is both a celebration of the writing life and a deeply personal—at times revelatory—invitation into the world of the imagination.